Helping People Affected by Natural Hazards with Technical Knowledge to Construct Safer Houses
Dr. Eefje Hendriks is a Lecturer and Researcher at Avans University of Applied Science and Eindhoven University of Technology in…
Polar Disaster Risk Reduction
Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health, University College London, UK, and Professor II, University of Agder, Norway. His…
Beyond Vulnerabilities, Towards Resilience – Children as Active Members in Resilience Building
Rama Rao Dammala is Senior Manager – Disaster Risk Management at Child Fund India. The inclusion of children in risk…
Guwahati Gets an Experimental Flood Warning System
The Third Pole is a multilingual platform dedicated to promoting information and discussion about the Himalayan watershed and the rivers…
Promoting Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction in Bihar
Dushyant S. Mohil is Country Lead – Program Manager – Partners for Resilience, Wetlands International. Integrated approaches such as Eco-DRR…
Doubling of Extreme Rainfall Events in the Himalayas
Joydeep Gupta is South Asia Director, The Third Pole. He has been writing on environmental issues ever since he covered…
Is Urban India Going Underwater Again?
Sahana Goswami is Manager – Sustainable Cities, World Resource Institute Samrat Basak is Director – Urban Water, World Resource Institute…
Paradox on Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for Climate Change and Natural Hazards
Dr Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin is Technical Director – DRR and Climate Resilience. He is an international disaster risk reduction and…
Paradox on Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for Climate Change and Natural Hazards
Dr Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin is Technical Director – DRR and Climate Resilience. He is an international disaster risk reduction and…
Disaster Risk Assessment: A Step Towards Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr Girish Chandra Joshi is a Senior Consultant, Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority, Government of Uttarakhand. A pro-active approach towards…
Disaster Risk Governance: Building a Resilient Future
Meet Dr Nathanial Matthews. As Program Director and member of the Senior Management Team, he leads the technical element of…
Equity is Crucial for Reducing Disaster Risk in Cities
Dr. Aaron Clark-Ginsberg is a social scientist at the RAND Corporation (USA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution that helps improve policy…